Robert C. Koehler
Cheap clothes!
Their cost, it turns out, is beyond calculation.
"Babul Mia said he identified his wife
"
So a fire swept through a sweatshop in
"Had there been at least one emergency exit through outside the factory, the casualties would have been much lower," the local fire department operations director said.
The fire -- only the most recent such horror in a
Interestingly, I did not see this obvious comparison drawn in most mainstream coverage of the
Apparently, this discussion is still off the table. We don't want to reopen the class warfare thing or look too critically at the global economic system. The problem belongs to
"The 25-year-old worker said whenever the automatic fire alarm goes off, the on-duty supervisors stop them from leaving the building." This is the
"Some workers said they sometimes have to work up to 24 hours at a stretch, but they are forced to tell the buyers that they work from
Meanwhile, the big multinationals that get their cheap goods from
The notoriously exploitative
On Monday Walmart announced it had dumped that supplier, adding: "The fact that this occurred is extremely troubling to us, and we will continue to work across the apparel industry to improve fire safety education and training in
In other words, this is mainly Third World ignorance operating here.
In point of fact,
The problem isn't the ruthless inhumanity of
Fire raced through a garment factory that supplies major retailers in the West, killing at least 112 people, many of whom were trapped by the flames because the building lacked emergency exits
112 Killed in Fire at Bangladesh Garment Factory
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